I leave work promptly at 3 PM unless I have meeting and then I b!tch. I do all my extra work, lesson plans, grading etc. either early in the morning after I ride in the evening.

It is hard to do that every day. Like I said, that's the plan. It doesn't mean I always follow it. Yesterday's recovery ride was mowing my lawn. I have a push reel mower and a hill to mow so it's not as bad as it sounds. And I've been a real slacker since December. But I only have two weeks to get ready for a 300 K... so I'm a little more dedicated right now. But I couldn't stick with that year round. It became not fun, hence the slacking.

I haven't done spin class in a gym for a few years. I found I could do the spin classes every day. Some days I just didn't always do what the instructor wanted. Some days I'd be more intense, sometimes less and I was always off to the side, not in front so I could do my own thing without being a distraction. The instructors were pretty cool about it. But we were a pretty tight knit group and it was always the same ladies in the class.

V.